Not at all. It isn't anybody's fault that the individual's religion doesn't hold up to the slightest logical scrutiny or that other people are vocal about disagreeing with him.
That is the only definition of obscenity. It is completely subjective and thus should never have been referred to in legal matters.
From wikipedia: Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable"), is a term that is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time.
A couple hundred years ago it was tolerable for 10 years old to marry and have sex; 12-13 years old (and even younger) marrying is still tolerable in many cultures today.
Pray tell, what is the prevalent sexual moralities of our modern, global times?
Try looking into keyboards with either Alps or Cherry mechanical switches. Quieter and softer than buckling springs like model Ms, but still has the feedback advantage of mechanical switches.
The "hype" isn't antique. Nowadays the hype is all about ergonomy and haptics, like those touchscreens that have to do an audible sound so you know you actually touched the right spot. Mechanical switch keyboards have both built in. Exactly at the moment where the spring buckles, you can hear the snap and feel the spring give way under your finger. That way you dont have to actually bash your fingers on the keys to hit the baseplate since that is the only way to know that the key has been registered on mushy keyboards (not even considering the fact that on rubber-dome keyboards, the design actually is to push the key completely down so contact is made). On the mechanical switch, you know right away when you have pushed far enough, so actual movement of the keys is minimised, and the spring actually helps to get the keys back in position faster.
Mine isn't born yet, though it was ordered on March 24, 2009. Been looking at used model M's for years but it isn't till I heard, a few weeks ago, about unicomp actually building brand new ones that I chose to buy one.
You are also free to take your business ( and code ) elsewhere and put them out of business.
What a narcissist thought. You think Blizz cares about the greedy addons writers? We must not forget that even at the high-end PvE and PvP scenes, the game is eminently playable with no addons or a minimal amount thereof. Even though addons do add a little something for the game, I've encountered a single paying one (Carbonite Quest) and the couple PvE addons which are considered "required" are free as in beer and as in nagware-free. I've donated to recount, auctioneer and deadly boss mods, so I'm happy that Blizz is taking care of the corner cases of mods that nag you in the chat window every time they activate.
Left 4 dead on expert mode is a true survival horror game. Play with 3 buddies in a single darkly lit room and you'll see. Pretty soon you'll start panicking when you hear given zombie sounds, staying together will seem like a matter of _your_ life and death and you'll feel like every small section of a chapter is the last you'll be able to complete.
Wow. I know my comment may be getting on the off-topic side, but I really hope the judges in your link get placed in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Kid abusers in canada often get death threats, if not straightaway murdered. I wish them no less in the prison they'll be put in.
Exactly. As language should be dynamic and represent common use by the people of a given period, the law should do its best to adapt to itself to the morality of the day. An overwhelming majority of people - not only slashdot techies, but pretty much every average person I know - have no qualms about violating copyright; this means that it should be acceptable, and we should collectively find a new way to reward content creators of all kinds.
This is really impressive. I hope that man's name shall be remembered much more strongly by the collective memory of the internet after this copyright saga.
What? In America we have something called you shouldn't go to jail if you didn't do anything wrong. [...] you can pour a glass of lemonade and set out a lawn chair for all we care, you are not liable.
Another obvious example would be most MMOs. The massive community has a heavy say in the direction the game takes. Most of Wow now-standard UI now includes functionalities first implemented in user-created addons, for instance. Even more new standard UI features have also just been announced that were available in mods for the last couple of years.
Actually, I think this is a call to hackers everywhere NOT to release a tool that will defeat this nonsense. All the better for all the other platforms, be it mac, linux, bsd...
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If it were, time to go back to raiding. 2 birds with one stone :)
lol (posting only for april fool's achievement)
Now talk about anal retentive.
Arguably free speech zones would disagree with you.
This is a lot less subtle, yet americans (shame on you, really) actually put up with it.
Can't say whether such an abhorrent concept would push me to extreme civil disobedience if I was american, but I like to think that it would.
Indeed.
Muhammad can lick my sweaty, salty balls.
The right not to be offended does not exist.
Not at all. It isn't anybody's fault that the individual's religion doesn't hold up to the slightest logical scrutiny or that other people are vocal about disagreeing with him.
That is the only definition of obscenity. It is completely subjective and thus should never have been referred to in legal matters.
From wikipedia:
Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul, repulsive, detestable"), is a term that is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time.
A couple hundred years ago it was tolerable for 10 years old to marry and have sex; 12-13 years old (and even younger) marrying is still tolerable in many cultures today.
Pray tell, what is the prevalent sexual moralities of our modern, global times?
Try looking into keyboards with either Alps or Cherry mechanical switches. Quieter and softer than buckling springs like model Ms, but still has the feedback advantage of mechanical switches.
The "hype" isn't antique. Nowadays the hype is all about ergonomy and haptics, like those touchscreens that have to do an audible sound so you know you actually touched the right spot.
Mechanical switch keyboards have both built in. Exactly at the moment where the spring buckles, you can hear the snap and feel the spring give way under your finger.
That way you dont have to actually bash your fingers on the keys to hit the baseplate since that is the only way to know that the key has been registered on mushy keyboards (not even considering the fact that on rubber-dome keyboards, the design actually is to push the key completely down so contact is made).
On the mechanical switch, you know right away when you have pushed far enough, so actual movement of the keys is minimised, and the spring actually helps to get the keys back in position faster.
Mine isn't born yet, though it was ordered on March 24, 2009.
Been looking at used model M's for years but it isn't till I heard, a few weeks ago, about unicomp actually building brand new ones that I chose to buy one.
Market isn't dead yet.
Must've misread you. For a second there I thought you said that it turns out that whales fail...
You are also free to take your business ( and code ) elsewhere and put them out of business.
What a narcissist thought. You think Blizz cares about the greedy addons writers?
We must not forget that even at the high-end PvE and PvP scenes, the game is eminently playable with no addons or a minimal amount thereof.
Even though addons do add a little something for the game, I've encountered a single paying one (Carbonite Quest) and the couple PvE addons which are considered "required" are free as in beer and as in nagware-free.
I've donated to recount, auctioneer and deadly boss mods, so I'm happy that Blizz is taking care of the corner cases of mods that nag you in the chat window every time they activate.
Left 4 dead on expert mode is a true survival horror game.
Play with 3 buddies in a single darkly lit room and you'll see.
Pretty soon you'll start panicking when you hear given zombie sounds, staying together will seem like a matter of _your_ life and death and you'll feel like every small section of a chapter is the last you'll be able to complete.
[...] will frequently hold up graphic (bordering on pornographic) posters showing aborted fetii.
In what freak world does aborted fetuses pictures border on pornography?
Fail troll is fail, you didn't even manage to hit first post.
Wow, I find it actually impressive that someone took some of his own time to write something so insignificant. Funny and pathetic in its own way.
Someone put him out of his misery, please.
Wow. I know my comment may be getting on the off-topic side, but I really hope the judges in your link get placed in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Kid abusers in canada often get death threats, if not straightaway murdered. I wish them no less in the prison they'll be put in.
Nor should you have flipped that magic switch!
Exactly. As language should be dynamic and represent common use by the people of a given period, the law should do its best to adapt to itself to the morality of the day. An overwhelming majority of people - not only slashdot techies, but pretty much every average person I know - have no qualms about violating copyright; this means that it should be acceptable, and we should collectively find a new way to reward content creators of all kinds.
This is really impressive. I hope that man's name shall be remembered much more strongly by the collective memory of the internet after this copyright saga.
What? In America we have something called you shouldn't go to jail if you didn't do anything wrong. [...] you can pour a glass of lemonade and set out a lawn chair for all we care, you are not liable.
That is very wrong in my book.
Another obvious example would be most MMOs. The massive community has a heavy say in the direction the game takes.
Most of Wow now-standard UI now includes functionalities first implemented in user-created addons, for instance. Even more new standard UI features have also just been announced that were available in mods for the last couple of years.
Actually, I think this is a call to hackers everywhere NOT to release a tool that will defeat this nonsense. All the better for all the other platforms, be it mac, linux, bsd...
"The most important features seem to be cheekbones, fullness of lips and the gap between the eyebrows," said Paolo Prandoni
I have an unibrow, you insensitive clod!